BOARD01253

• Board Meeting Date: 1/28/1946
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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will met in olosed meetings. At the proper time various interested persons
will be given an opportunity to present their views to the Commission. He
further explained that arra.ngements were made for the seoond ~eting before
the beginning of the irrigation season to disoUlls a temporary arrangement
for the release of water from John Martin Reservoir during the next irri-
gation season. This meeting will be held at Topeka, .Kansas, on Maroh 18 and
19, 1946.

Thereupon Direotor Stone reported on a meeting whioh he and Chief
Engineer Patterson had recently held with Direotor E, O~ Larson, Regional
Director of Region 4. Bureau of Reolamation, at Grand Junotion, Colorado
to discuss Colorado projeots and investigations within his area and to devise
ways and means for more effeotively oorrelating the work of the State and
the Bureau of Reolamation. Direotor Stone's report on the meeting was sup-
plemented by oomments by Chief Engineer Patterson. .

The meeting ..djourned ..t 5=10 p.m" to reoonvene Tuesday morning,
January 29. 1946.

Yorning Session, January 29, 1946

The meeting reoonvened.and was o..lled to order by Vioe-Chairman Chris
Wallrioh ..t 10,00 ...m.

S. W. Lohman again appeared before the Board and reported that the
Geologioal Survey had reoeived a supplementary allotment of funds for under-
ground investigation in the Missouri Basin. He further stated that the sum
of $5,000 had been allotted for ground water work in Colorado, speoifioally
for studies in the South Platte Basin. He said that the expenditure of
this money would not require matohing funds from the State of Colondo and
would be in addition to the U, S. Geologioal Survey expenditures under the
present underground water study in thl!> state. This ml!>ans, he said, that
the $5.000 will be ..n addition to the $50,000--$25,000 from the U.S. Geo-
logioal Survey and $25,000 from the Statl!>, for underground water study in
the State. This $5,000, however, must be spent in that portion of Colorado
whioh lies in the Missouri Basin; He explained that no attsmpt would be
made to utilize thesl!> additional funds through the existing staff but. it
would mean that additional men would be pu;t to work in order t'o oarry on
the investigation in the South Platte Ba.llin. .

Direotor Stone then reported on the status of the investigations of
the Gwmison.J.rkanaas transmountain diversion. He explained that meetings
had bIlen held at Gunnison and in the Arkansas Valley at whioh time a pre-
liminary, physioal plan had been explaiped to interested groups. He further
stated that at the appropriate time E. B. Debler. Direotor of Region 7.
Bunau of Reolamation, would present the preliminary plans and other in-
formation oonoerning thl!> projeot to the BOArd, Mr. Dutoher, member of the
Board from the Gunnison Ba.sin, stated that he had no OOllllllents to make.
oalling attention to the faot that what had been presented was in the nature
of a preliminary. physioal plan and that he would have f'l1rthet' OOlllllllll1ts to
make. when the ph.n was presented by Mr. Debler to the Board. Chief ~1~e.r
Patterson. Henry C. Vidal and others oClllllllel'1ted upon the status of this
investigation.

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